When A Female Fighter Destroyed A Troll Who Said Most Men Would Beat Most Women....

 

RYAN SIDLE in UFC

Published 13:17, Thursday 09 April 2020 BST

There's not many ways you can deal with internet trolls, engage with them, block them, mute them or ignore them, that's pretty much it. Unless of course you're an MMA fighter in which case you can accept a challenge and try and rip your opponent's arm off.

Will us men ever learn? There's no point in challenging a woman to something she's really good at just because she's a woman, you won't automatically be better than her.

Bobby Riggs found that out during the battle of the sexes back in 1973. Sure he beat Margaret Court but he still lost to Billie Jean King after claiming the Court match was proof he could be any woman.

Back in June 2017 internet troll Kris Zylinski tried to copy Riggs but 45 years later but in a stupid twist was talking about fighting and women fighters:

The tweets that kicked it all off. Images: Facebook/Jiu-Jitsu Times

Step forward Florida MMA fighter Tara LaRosa, a bantamweight with a record of 22-5 in MMA, winning three fights by knockout and a further 12 by submission.

As you can see from the video, from around the 11 minute mark to the 13 minute mark it's pretty one sided before LaRosa finishes it off with an armbar and a very quick submission:

One YouTube user commented: "Seeing how bad he moves, my wife would destroy him in a street fight, even without breaking a sweat."

Another posted: "he taps and starts lecturing, lmao. shut up."

While a third said: "he said he was in control... i must have saw a different video."

A fourth added: "Dude she MANHANDLED you at every point......"

After all that Zylinski is still trying to claim that the only reason he lost is because of fitness whilst also admitting that once he was winded he was done for. Surely fighters overcome being winded in the octagon to win all the time, so it was her skill that won it, moron.

Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers...

 

She's marched for miles carrying gear that weighs as much as she does, killed animals for food during survival training and practised jumping out of planes to get behind enemy

But Jannike, a pony-tailed 19-year-old from northern Norway, will only concede that she's "pretty tough".

She is part of the Hunter Troop, the world's first all-female special forces training programme.

"I wanted to do something bigger, the toughest the army could offer me," Jannike says. "I wanted to [see] how far I could push myself."

After six months, despite some "really low moments", she is determined to get through the course. 

Next up on the training schedule is close-combat fighting and offensive driving.

In between rounds, the women, who are all aged between 19 and 27, rest, and the dynamic changes completely.

They sing, and joke around. Three women sprawl out on an equipment box, enjoying the brief downtime. Later they light a fire, and get a barbeque going.

Back in the mid-1980s, Norway became one of the first countries in Nato to allow women to serve in all combat roles, although the numbers actually doing so have remained low. Women were allowed to apply for the special forces, but none had got in.

The United States and Britain, in comparison, have only recently begun lifting restrictions on women officially enlisting in combat units.

Special forces soldiers in the US have shown particular resistance to the changes. A 2014 Rand Institute survey of men in the US Special Operations Command found that 85% were against letting women do their specialised jobs, with 71% opposed to women joining their units.

The main concerns were that tough standards would fall and team cohesion could be affected.

But men also complained about the feared effects of pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), dealing with their wives' complaints, and the effects of having segregated living quarters.

Magnus, a male Norwegian special forces soldier who has trained the Jegertroppen, doesn't have patience for what he calls "man-made" problems.

Male and female soldiers mostly share rooms in Norway, and PMS is "not an issue at all" in training, he said.

He recognises that there are some valid concerns: most pertinently, the ability of a female soldier to quickly carry a wounded male counterpart to safety.

Most of the members of the Jegertroppen were elite high school athletes, but they bring other strengths to the table apart from their physical capability.

Venderla, 22, passed the course last year. "Women think outside the box," she says. "Men just do what they are supposed to do. Maybe we are more capable of seeing another solution, a better solution."

Although gender equality is well-entrenched in the Norwegian military - as it is in the country's society - just 11% of personnel are women, reflecting halting progress in recruiting and retaining females.

This compares with 10.2% in the UK and more than 15% in the United States.

Conscription was extended to Norwegian women last year and they made up about 25% of the 8,000 youngsters recruited, meaning the share should increase over time.

Venderla says she has not experienced sexism in the special forces, but has in another battal

She was told by some soldiers that she was weaker and less capable as a woman, and one man made sexual comments, she said. The problem stopped after she complained.

"I think he was maybe a little insecure. I knew I was good enough passing the tests so it's his problem."

Norwegian special forces are currently deployed in Jordan, helping to train Syrian rebels in the fight against so-called Islamic State.

None of the women who have passed through the Jegertroppen so far have been deployed on a special operation, but the commanders say that the important thing is that they are trained and ready should the need arise.

Jannike speaks calmly but with conviction. She says that in a peaceful country like Norway, it's difficult for her to keep in mind during training that they are actually "learning to kill".

"But I try to have that perspective, because that's what we're really training for."

Gender loyalty and the Sisterhood...

I have mentioned this in passing in other articles and comments, but would like to go into a bit more detail on what it means and why it is so important for the Amazon movement.

You may be familiar with the phenomenon of the “xoxo” or “xx” e-mail sign off that came to light a few years ago where females in senior positions in companies & organisations would use these symbols as a covert way of saying to each other “I’ve got your back”. Whatever the situation, I will do everything in my power to help you as a woman. Not sure how it started , but this is a very real and very significant move against patriarchy

I have always observed that females make far more effective teams because women have a natural tendency to look out for each other, whereas men (in an all male situation) have a natural tendency to look out for themselves as individuals. I believe it is this fundamental difference that is the foundation for a successful female dominated society

If we think about it, I’m sure we can all remember experiences that illustrate this. I recall several occasions at school where the PE teachers thought they would have a bit of fun by pitting teams of boys against teams of girls at certain tasks or games (tug of war being a notable one) and to many people’s surprise, the boys total embarrassment and the teacher’s amusement….. the girls always won! Of course at that age we as girls were just more physically capable than the boys anyway, but the other differentiator was our instant and instinctive ability to work together as an effective team whilst the boys, already disorganised and beset with competing egos struggled to get their act together, got frustrated and as a result, succumbed pretty quickly.

One of the more high profile areas where we see gender loyalty in action is the world of high school wrestling in the US. I have read many accounts and there have even been one or two posted on this blog which detail the support female wrestlers have received from females on the opposing teams. This ranges from offering words of encouragement, to sharing info about the male opponent, to openly celebrating when the girl beats their own male team-mate!! I have to admit, there is something completely outrageous about this. Girls blatantly flouting the conventions of team competition to help fellow girls - but I love it!! It seems like these girls have instinctually realised that the ongoing battle between the genders is far more important and significant than the competition between the opposing mixed school teams. Without any direction from above, they have decided by themselves to help and root for fellow girls. even though this might mean that their own team loses. This instinct is so important.

We should all try to assess the strength of our own instinct for gender loyalty. I for one can say that if my own son was facing a girl in the ring or on the mat, I would be rooting for the girl to win 100%. Not that I would make this outwardly obvious, I would of course cheer my son out of respect, but this would be subterfuge, as secretly I would be willing him lose to the girl, even at the risk of him getting hurt. This might sound like a shocking admission to some, but to me it seems perfectly natural and I don’t feel any guilt about it. My belief in female supremacy goes way beyond family loyalty. I think that’s how it has to be. I know I’m not the only one, there are other examples of gender loyalty cutting across family ties.

I was recently contacted privately by a girl who’d read the blog and who wanted to tell me her story. She didn’t want to post the story herself, so I won’t reveal too many details. A top gymnast with a full trophy cabinet, she decided to switch to Judo at age 14. Her brother, 5 years her senior was already a black belt. He must have felt uncomfortable about his switch, because he began to taunt and bully her, telling her she could never succeed in a man’s sport. Well that of course was like a red rag to a bull, so over the next 2 years she trained really hard with the intention of challenging her brother one day to prove him wrong. Well that day came and with the approval and support of her mother, the 16 year-old girl challenged her 21 year-old brother one evening in the family home, after he’d returned from a Judo session.

With the mother looking on, the two siblings locked together in “mortal combat” Expecting the fight of her life, the girl was astonished  that in just under 2 minutes she had submitted her black belt brother! The girl then consolidated the win with a victory pose. She ripped off off his black belt and held it aloft, whilst standing over him with her foot pressed down firmly on his throat. The mother took a photo for posterity, something they had planned together beforehand to make sure the brother could not deny nor forget the experience. Talk about confidence?

There is a lot to love about this story. Certainly something prescient about the mother’s confidence in her daughter’s ability. The mother was clearly keen for this contest to take place. She wanted her daughter to win and knew that she would, despite her being 5 years younger and with many years less experience. Furthermore, the mother was perfectly happy to show favouritism towards her daughter over her son, despite the risk of a family rift - that’s true gender loyalty.

I firmly believe that this female instinct to support each other in the face of patriarchal domination, will be decisive in the battle of the sexes. It makes a female dominated society of the future ...inevitable and we can all do our bit. How gender loyal are you?

100 Pull ups for time - Battle of the sexes

A perfect demonstration of what I and others have been describing on this blog for years now - the pure efficiency of female muscle.....Thanks to yboy for finding this clip...

US Girls wrestling - some interesting statistics....

It has ocurred to me that we don't do enough on this blog to champion the efforts of our sisters in the United States, who in many ways are at the forefront of the battle of the sexes. US High school wresting is one of the only sports where girls are officially allowed to compete directly against boys and despite a huge disparity in participating numbers and ongoing discrimination, the teenage girls of America are taking the wrestling scene by storm.

One of our contributors is an ace researcher and she has done some great work collating evidence from official records and the results are pretty spectacular. She recently posted them in a reply to a comment, but I feel these are so important that they really deserve their own post - so please see again below... Let's hear it for our sisters Stateside!!! Enjoy and please let us know your thoughts...

If we look at the results of coed wrestling matches and analyse the statistics, when the results or normalized to scale the disparity in population size we see that girls, 2% of the wrestling population, even with all the gender discrimination they suffer, statistically win 60 matches out of every 100, a clear majority of 60% of the bouts. Going deeper, we see that as match ups being decided by weight divisions and due to the puberty gap where girls go through their growth spurts earlier than boys, quite often the genders compete on a playing field with a significant age gap. Basically there are a significant amount of middle school girls 13 years old or younger in their first or second year of wrestling taking on senior guys, 16, 17, 18 years old…basically young men who have been wrestling for 5 or 6 years. You would expect a senior male wrestler to be able to overpower a girl this age but that's not what happens. The girls win convincingly even against the top talent level, the statistics still hardly change, and the girls crush them! They win most of those matches 59 to 100 59% age gap practically makes no difference!

At the US national level the gender gap gets even wider. On scaling standardization girls win 70% of the time or 93 matches out of 132, 58 (40%) of them pins.

Now here’s where the statistics look even worse for the guys. It was always a fear that in mixed gender bouts the female ran a great risk of being badly injured, however results show that is males who are at greater risk. In a study of 203 mixed gender bouts, 7 ended in reports of injury medical attention for the losing wrestler (including dislocated shoulders and cracked ribs). None of this 7 was female, all the injured were guys. Of the 7 injuries 2 were when senior boys ended up getting wrecked at the hands of junior female wrestlers! To summarise what these stats mean, given equal participation when you take a team of 10 trained female wrestlers against equally trained men you can bet money on at least a 7-3 female victory some of the men will in all certainty be carried off the mat on a stretcher. Train a team of 10 13 year old girl wrestlers and match them against equally trained adult males 6 of the men will loose and again stretchers will be needed. To really hammer the point of female supremacy take a moment to imagine the carnage our squad of 13 year old sisters would inflict upon a group of men who can’t wrestle! Female power unleashed! Put an untrained man against a girl wrestler and he would get hurt bad! Considering how little attention and training and discrimination girl wrestlers get compared to boys the stats show man’s oldest sport is beginning to belong solely in the realms of the female! And now matches where girls as young as 12 demolish senior year boys, 17/18 year olds - men in fact, in less than 30 seconds are becoming more and more frequent and normal. Maybe society should not wonder whether women can compete with men, but question whether due to male inadequacy and frailty if it's unfair to let men even try to 'compete' with the girls.Bottom line, girls rule :D

Link to illustration of full fight - Cassy vs Kyle

http://www.network54.com/Forum/225841/message/1363567098/Battle+of+the+Sexes+Vol+%232-+Cassy+vs+Kyle+%28307+Pics%29

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Girls beating up guys in TV and Film

Further to a previous post about a male vs female fight scene in a James Bond film - it got me thinking about how things have changed in the past couple of decades. It is actually very common these days to see depictions of females overpowering or getting the better of males in mainstream TV drama series and films. I'm not quite sure as to why. Maybe it is seen as more entertaining to have an outcome to a confrontation which may be the opposite of what most people expect. Or maybe it is just because there are more female writers who want to change perceptions of female physicality?

Whether it's Agent Lisbon in "The Mentalist" or Siva from NCIS or countless other female characters tackling and arresting male baddies, there seems to be an appetite for this kind of mixed action drama. This is of course most welcome if it encourages more girls to change their views on their own physicality, my only problem with these portrayals is that they are rarely done convincingly.... What I mean by that is that the female characters concerned including the two mentioned above just don't have a convincing physical presence and don't look or act like they could punch their way out of a wet paper bag - therefore the action has to be so overly choreographed and contrived that it doesn't look realistic and ends up just being patronising.

That said, I recently saw a scene which nails it. It was in a drama series called Blacklist. What I could make of the plot is that a male and a female FBI agent were persuing a female assasin who lured her targets by posing as a prostitute and injecting them with deadly chemicals when they were at their most vulnerable. The FBI agents had tracked her down to a hotel where she had just completed a job. The male agent caught up with her in the lift and as he pulled his gun and tried to arrest her, a frantic fight ensued. One of the most convincing M/F fights I've seen on TV. The female assassin was tall - taller than the guy and had a good, powerful looking physique. Despite this the fight was actually quite even as they traded punches and took turns pinning eachother up against the walls of the lift car. Eventually the female's greater strength and skill prevailed. As more of her punches connected than his, the male gradually succumbed as she pressed home her advantage, jumping on his back and executing a choke hold. the male agent collapsed forward under her weight and passed out as she crushed him to the floor. She made good her escape as he lay defeated, motionless.

This was so much more realistic that most of the other M/F fights. Firstly because the female looked physically capable to start with and secondly because the fight wasn't totally one sided - the male FBI agent gave a good account of himself, visibly trying his hardest - but she was just too strong for him. Hollywood - take note. It is perfectly feasible and acceptable for a woman to prevail against a man in a physical fight - You don't have fake it...

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Amanda Leve

Due to the original video being deleted from Youtube, here's another showcasing the talents of Amanda Leve

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Are girls really the weaker sex???

We are all brought up to believe that girls are the weaker sex, but isn't this just a myth created by centuries of social conditioning??? It's a widely recognised fact that girls mature physically way ahead of boys so for virtually all of the school-going years, girls should be stronger. The fact that school sports are so strictly segregated helps perpetuate the idea that sports are something that boys should take seriously but girls shouldn't. Are things changing though? Girls certainly seem to taking up sports in greater numbers and in sports like wrestling girls are now allowed to compete against boys and it's actually quite common for the girls to win.

More girls are showing the boys who's boss

Could this be the key to changing our beliefs about feamle physical capabilites? Not so long ago it was considered not worth even educating girls - but now look, they are out-performing boys academically by greater margins ever year. Could the same thing happen in the physical realm? Will a change in mind-set and lifestyle result in females maintaining their physical strength advantage through to adulthood in the future? Females are relative newcomers to competative sports and they seem to be narrowing the gap in performance with males at an alarming rate. The future looks like being a scary place for males....